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I have a number of small customisations for WooCommerce that I have done for a couple of clients. These are customisations that could possibly be of use to others, and can be installed as a plugin. Depending on demand, I may release them, but it really does depend on demand. Here is a summary. If […]

Finding your WooCommerce variations are being lost when you edit a product? You need to read this to find out why and what to do about it. max_input_vars is a setting used by PHP. Its purpose is to limit the number of fields that can be sent to a website when a form is submitted. […]

It is common to add a Google Sitemap to your WooCommerce shop. There are many WordPress plugins that will provide this functionality for you. However, be careful you do not expose more than you bargained for, because it can have disastrous consequences on your SEO rating. If your shop uses variations – variable products with […]

We are using the WooCommerce CSV Import Suite to manage 22,000+ products on a shop. This premium (meaning “non-free”, though still GPL) plugin supports both import and export. We need to be able to export the entire shop, so we can go through the products in a a preadsheet, look for anomalies such as missing […]

There are a few problems with the WooCommerce CSV Import Suite that I have come up against. Some I have already talked about, but here are a few more. Some have workarounds, and some are just a little puzzling. I am hoping that most of these issues will be solved by the time you need […]

The meat of this post (until I copy it over) is here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-using-a-unique-field-to-prevent-duplicates There has been a few difficulties in making the required changes to the plugin, so I’m just going to include my version for download here. This is version 0.3.7 of “CSV Importer” for WordPress, but it has a filter hook at the […]

Phew! Just finished migrating 20,000 products to a new WooCommerce shop. Raised a bunch of tickets with WooThemes too, through their incredibly sucky “UserVoice” integration, pretending to be a ticket system (but that’s a winge for another day). The import was interesting, too say the least, and I thought it a good idea to post […]